Taking photos inside Antelope Canyon can be extremely tough, especially if you've never visited the canyon before. Low light, lots of people, and a tight timeframe can make it hard to get beautiful pictures to remember your vacation by, especially if you don't know what you're doing. As a professional photographer myself, I had a hard time getting good photos the first time I toured the canyon because I wasn't properly prepared for it.
The last thing you want to be doing is messing with your phone's camera settings, missing all of the amazing colors, textures, and history of the canyon.
Lucky for you, you're taking one big step towards preparing yourself to take beautiful photos. In this guide, you'll learn 8 secrets to take amazing photos of Antelope Canyon, all with the phone that's in your pocket.
What you'll learn...
How to set the focus of an image yourself.
Many people don't know that when you hold your phone up to take a photo, it automatically chooses where to focus. Most of the time, this works great, but when you're in the canyon, you may want the focus of your photo to be on something specific so you can really capture the beauty of the sandstone walls!
How to make your photos POP with one simple trick.
The lighting inside Antelope Canyon is definitely unique and can cause your phone's camera to pick up on weird colors, giving your photos a washed out look. You can easily counteract this by using one simple trick!
How to avoid blurry photos, High Dynamic Range, and more!
Learn how to properly stabilize your phone to take sharp photos, how to take a photo without pressing the shutter button, shooting with High Dynamic Range, and more!
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Hi, I’m Sarah, founder of VACAYPICS!
I'm a professional photographer and the creator of VACAYPICS. I have been a professional photographer for over 5 years and have photographed everything from the Milky Way galaxy and landscapes to newborn babies and families.
Vacation is something we do to relax, have fun, and spend time with our families. However, every time someone showed me their vacation photos, I would hear, "It was so much better it person!", or "I just couldn't get a good photo". I thought to myself, why is this happening? I think I can help!
With VACAYPICS, I wanted to create a place where people could learn how to take better photos on vacation in an easy, self-paced format. I wanted to eliminate the confusing technical jargon so that everybody could easily understand the information. Taking beautiful photos shouldn't be stressful, it should be fun!
Here, you'll learn how to take your vacation photos to the next level so that you're proud to show them to your friends and family. You'll no longer have to say, "my photos don't do it justice" while showing off your photos from the beach in Maui, because they will do it justice!
Vacation.
You've traveled hours or days to get to your destination.
You've saved every paycheck to afford your airplane ticket, hotel room, and tours.
You take a million photos of all the amazing things you're seeing, but when you look at your photos, they all look like this: dark, blurry, and lacking any kind of wow-factor. You feel like you've just wasted a vacation and have no good photos to show for it!
You can't help but think of all the time and money you've put into this vacation, only to have your photos - your only memories of your vacation - look awful.
If only your photos could look like this: bright, dramatic, and full of color.
"My pictures don't do it justice!"
When sharing your vacation photos with friends and family, how often do you say, "It was so much better it person!", or "I just couldn't get a good photo".
We remember our vacations through our photos. So what good does it do to come home with bad ones?
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple guide to walk you step-by-step through taking better photos?
Do you want to take vacation photos that you're proud of? How would it feel to show them to your friends and family without saying, "my photos don't do it justice."?
Those dark, blurry photos won't provide you with the bright, colorful memories of your dream vacation. Looking back at your lackluster photos will only make you sad or disappointed and might make you regret your vacation all together.
How do you avoid this situation?
Guess what? You already have the tools to take amazing vacation photos in your pocket.
But how do you take your pictures from "Oh no..." to "Oh wow!"?
The solution? Vacaypics.
Easy, bite-sized education at your fingertips for taking your best vacation photos yet.
Vacaypics provides you with all the information you need to take amazing vacation photos, allowing you to preserve your memories just how you remember them.
Are you on board? Check out a sampling of our upcoming classes below:
- How to take the best photos of the Antelope Slot Canyons with your smart phone.
- Secrets you didn't know about your iPhone camera.
- How to avoid blurry photos on your iPhone in low light.
- PORTRAIT SERIES (ex. How to take the best photos of your kids on vacation)
- Simple photo editing on your phone
- What are the best lenses to use for landscape photos.
- How to shoot in manual mode and get great shots.
- Editing 101
- Advanced editing
- Best apps for editing images on your phone
- How to take the best photos of Horseshoe Bend (with your phone and DSLR)
- NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES (ex. How to capture the milky way at night)
- Making a vacation photo album
- Vacation checklist for the photographer
- Remember your vacation with video on your phone
- Best time of year to photograph sunbeams inside the slot canyons (and how to do it)
- SUNSET SERIES (ex. How to photograph Horseshoe Bend at sunset)
- LANDSCAPE SERIES (ex. How to take epic landscape photographs)
And so many more!
Our videos and guides will show you, step-by-step, in easy to understand terms, how to take amazing photos like this, all with the phone in your pocket.
Learn how to take control of your phone's camera to easily adjust the brightness before taking a picture, take tack-sharp photos, and compose interesting shots that capture the true beauty of the landscape.
Want to use your DSLR? We've got your covered.
Learn from real professional photographers how to get breathtaking photographs in easy to follow videos that show you exactly what settings to use.
Don't waste your time trying to teach yourself how to use your DSLR. Let our professionals walk you through it all! From manual mode, to lenses, to editing - everything you need is in one place.